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2025 is the centenary of Frantz Fanon, the Martinique-born psychiatrist, critical theorist, and anti-colonial militant. His work, written in the context of French colonial rule and the Algerian war of independence, offers a powerful diagnosis of the psychological and political structures of colonial domination as well as of decolonization struggles. Fanon interrogates traditions and figures ranging from Hegel and Sartre to Marxism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis and the négritude movement of Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor. FromÌýBlack Skin, White MasksÌýtoÌýThe Wretched of the Earth, his writings remain crucial reference points in debates on topics like (neo)colonialism, racism, identity, lived experience, humanism, decolonization, and social justice.

To mark Fanon’s 100th birthday, this workshop brings together talks and discussions that revisit his work from multiple angles. We will explore his philosophical interventions and political commitments, their relevance for our world today and the debates they continue to raise—with the aim of thinking with, but also critically against, Fanon’s legacy.

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Programme:

10:00–10:15Ìý— Welcome and Introduction

10:15–11:00Ìý— Kari Jegerstedt (UiB, SKOK):ÌýFanon avec Spivak: A Hegelian Encounter

11:00–11:45Ìý— Daniel James ():ÌýFanon, Hegel and the Temporal Structure of Decolonisation

11:45–12:15Ìý— Coffee Break

12:15–13:00Ìý— Torgeir Skorgen (UiB, Department of Foreign Languages):ÌýCharacterologies of Racism: Jews, Colonisers and Colonised in Arendt and Fanon

13:00–14:15Ìý— Lunch Break

14:15–15:00Ìý— Franz Knappik (UiB, Department of Philosophy):ÌýFanon on Violence: Context and Critique

15:00–15:45Ìý— Hans Marius Hansteen (UiB, Department of Philosophy):ÌýEurope and the Third World. Reflections on (Symbolic?) Violence

15:45–16:15Ìý— Coffee Break

16:15–17:45Ìý—ÌýKeynote: Robert Bernasconi ():ÌýFrom the Vicious Circle of Despair to Belief in a New Humanism: A Sartrean Perspective on Fanon’s Customary Path